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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

FIRE at Dover, n. H., destroyed the main
building of the Cocheco Print Works, large
structure, causing total loss of about $780,
600 and throwing GOO operatives out of en-
ployment. Many of the operatives were
obliged to leap from the second story win
dows.
THE acid from dynamite factories along
Stony Creek, Penn, has killed millions OF
fish.
THE peach trees of Delaware and Mary
land are in such bloom that plenteous crop
is promised.
MANY boot and shoe cutters of New Eng
land have become dissatisfied with the
workings Of the Knights Of Labor, and have
formed an independent union. The object of
the new union will be to settle all difficulties
by arbitration.
A FIRE in New York burned out the offices
Of three German papers and the counting
room of the Morning Journal. The flames
were attributed to incendiaries, as four
previous fires have occurred in this building
within a month.
ABOUT fifty New York grocerymen and
restaurant dealers have just been fined 500
each for selling oleomargarine as butter.
A MYSTERIOUS explosion on the schooner
ored seaman and badly burned another sail
or. The rest Of the crew took to the yawl
and were picked up by a passing steamship
and brought to New York.
A HEAVY snow storm in April is weather
phenomenon with which many sections Of the
North Atlantic States have been visited. In
some places sleighing was resumed.
A New YORK local Assembly, K. of L.,
containing 500 workers in tin and sheet iron,
has rebelled against the District Assembly,
been suspended, and threatens to leave the
Order entirely.
A WAGON containing John Becker, his wife
Catharine, Mrs Emma Becker and her two
year-old daughter, was struck by an express
train at Lancaster, Penn. Man and wife were
instantly killed, Mrs. Emma Becker was fatal
ly injured and the child was found unhuIt on
the platform in front Of the locomotive.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THERE is promise Of big batting records
this season. -, 49, 80
The Detroits' outlay this season viii be
over $50 ,00O
THIS will be good year for home runs.
The crop is unusually large already.
Or the Chicago team Anson, Baldwin, Sui
fvan and Darling are all over six feet tall.
THE new rules give the felders plenty TO-
do. 1t isnot the batteries who play the game
now. z:
BASEBALL has at last received boom in:
Warrington. The public have gone wild over,
THE New York League Club was defeated
in the exhibition game by the Columbia Col
lege Mines to 6.
FoeARTY, Of tho Philadelphias, won suit
Of clothes offered by clothing firm for the
first local player making home run.
LARRY CoRcoRAN, who was at one tims
the greatest pitcher in the country, has gone
South with the hope that season there will
help his arm. ~
THE Boston battery-Bufingto pitcher;
Cunning, catcher-have been sold to the
Philadelphias for $780, All the League clubs
have consented to the transfer.
THERE are 2,41 pounds, or over ono ton,
OF batting material in the Brooklyn Ameri-
can Association Club, divided as follows:
Startwood, 1870; Harkins, III; TooIe 1853;
Porter, 142; Terry, 16S; Henderson, 20S; o.
Brien, 1856; Peoples, 1873; Clarke, 1856; Phil
lips, 2O2; Mcclellan, 156; Smith, 159: Pink
ney, 143; Burch, 1s0; McTammany, 155.
THE Captains Of the League and American
Club teams for 1887 are as follows: League
Chicago, Anson; Detroit, Hanlon; New
York, Ward; Philadelphia, Irwin; Boston,
Kelly; Washington, Farrell; Pi5tsbrg,
srown dndlsaaPol GlaSSes sissv
Swartwood; Louisville, Hecker; Cincinnati,
Fennelly; Athletic, Stovey; Metropolitan.
Orr; Baltimore, Greenwood; Cleveland, Sny-
der .... . '....-- .-.1.--
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FATAL PRAIRIE FIRES.
Fifteen Lives Lost in Kansas-Prop
crty Lost in Dakota.

Fifteen Lives Lost in Kansas-Prop-
crty Lost in Dakota.
A despatch from Atchison, KAN, says ::
"No less than fifteen persons have been
burned to death by the prairie fires which,
starting near Nicodemus Graham County.
have swept northwest OH an air line into
Norton County, destroying everything
in q path that in places is from
two and a half to seven miles wide
"a great roaring sea of fame rolling in trc-
mendous sheets under the impetus of the high
wind which prevailed all day Saturday and
night Thousands of head Of stock of all
kinds have been burned, and thousands of
tons Of hay, corn and wheat, and from 100
to 175 houses and barns have been destroyed.
The burned district extends distance of
over sixty miles, with the fire still spreading"
A Sioux Falls Dakota) special says: re
ports of loss of property from prairie fires
continue to come in Eighteen miles west Of
this city a tremendous fire started and swept
the country for miles. Many farmers lost
their houses and barns. 1t was the most de-
structive fire that ever visited this part of the
country and the total loss will exceed $780,
0C0
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SWEPT BY A CYCLONE.
A Large Area in West Virginia and
Ohio Devastated.

A tornado the other afternoon wrought de-
vastation over section of country extending
from ST. Clairsville, Ohio, ten miles west. The
storm was first felt at St. Clairsville at 3:15
NJ. 1t appeared to be travelling
from the West and in the form
of a funnel shaped mass of cloud.
Houses were demolished, trees snapped off
like p;pcstemS, horses and cattle Frustrated
and carried bodily hundreds Of yards by the
gale, and the sky was darkened with the
Clouds of flying debris. The First National
Bank block was almost swept from its foun-
dation The National Hotel, Mrs. Evanss
large brick house, aud probably forty or more
The Unite:l Presbyterian Church, large
brick elifice, was totally demolished. The
loss in st. Clairsville will reach $2OO,G0O.
The town Of Bridgeport, just across the Ohio
River, escaped, but O funeral was in the ceme-
terry on the hilltop at the time and the car
riages were blown over and carried against
trees, tombstones swapping of as they blew
over them. Martins Ferry, w. Va, on the
opposite side of the river ut the north
end of town, suffered even more severely
than st. Clairsviue. The Elson Glass Works
had one brick building blown down on the
hill. In the town proper seventy-tve TO Ioo
houses were moro or less damaged, and the
loss will reach S1G5,OO0. Walnut Grove, a
fine park, has but few of the 500 lofty trees
standing. The city cemetery adjoining was
similarly unfortunate, The stove foundry was
partially demolished James Reilly's house
and liquor shop were b.own down, and Mrs.
Reilly was pulled unconscious from the ruins,
and may die. Besides Mrs. Reilly, the only
casualties reported were James Reilly, her
husband, both legs broken; Mrs. Wilhelm,
collar-bone broken; Mark Davis, OF the
Martins Ferry Stove Works, probably fatally
injured. A German lady was also danger
ously injured.
When the storm struck the river the water
shot up in a perpendicular wall about twenty
feet and then fell back in seething foam, and
simultaneously O shower of fence boards
posts and timbers, with some large sections OF
houses, fell in sheet on the waves. The Fair
view schoolhOuse, one mile west was totally
wrecked and Miss White, the school-teacher,
badly hurt Several families were rendered
homeless. The Lafayette Rink was engaged
by the city authorities as temporary shelter
for the homeless, and a meeting Of citizens
was called to devise measures of relief.
1t was believed the aggregate losses would
exceed 81 900, ,000
The section of country surrounding Wells
vile, Ohio, was also visited by tefrlnc
storm. which inflicted great damage. The
tornado crossed the Cleveland and Pittsburg
Railroad ut Summitville and was accom-
panied by huge water-spout, which burst
just on the outskirts of the town, destroying
fences and farm property, tearing up trees
and prostratng telegraph wires.
Mrs. Michael Maloney, during severe hail
storm at Niles, Ohio, went into the second
story of her house to close q window when
lightning struck tho house, killing her
instantly.
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Professor Leslie says: ''Itake the op.
portunity to express my opinion in the
strongest terms that the amazing exhibi-
tion of oil and gas which has character
lied the last twenty, and will probably
characterize the next ten or twenty years,
Is nevertheless not only geologically, but
historically, temporary and vanishing
phenomenon-one which young men will
live to see come to its natural end"
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PLOUGHING UP GOLD.
a Texas Farm Yields a Crop of
Twenty Dollar Pieces.

4 Texas Farm Yields a Crop of
Twenty Dollar Pieces.
On Sunday morning two men drove up to
the residence of William Tubbs, ST., who
,ives near Fort WORTH Texas, and told
him that in 1865 an Indian woman,
fearing that she would be plundered by
raiders, buried IN iron vessel containing
$1,000 in gold under q corner of the house
now occupied by Mr.. Tubbs. Upon moving
away she concluded it was safest 10 leave it
where it was. Upon her deathbed short
time ago, she revealed the secret to these
two men, and in return for kind
ness they had shown her, she be-
aueathed to them her buried treasure.
With Mr.. Tubbs's permission, they dug at the
spot indicated by the Indian woman. The
iron pot was unearthed, and in it was found
a canvas bag containing gold coin to the
amount of moro than 81 900.
After these facts had become generally
known Capt. Bewley, who lives near Mr..
Tubbs, said that OH last Monday afternoon,
while while ploughing 1!, in field nc near his li
a shining substance Which provei to
be $50 gold piece. As ho ploughel on he
found more gold pieces and then he called
his hired man, Ed Carpenter, from an adj
joining field. By nightfall they picked UP
2S2 coins, all so gold pieces, which amounted
to $500.
This startling discovery has set the coun-
try wild, and every person who ow MS as much
as ten acres of ground has gone to digging for
gold. Hawk Henson says he found
S35 in Confederate money in an
old stump on his place. The next
day he received an offer Of 500 an acre for
his place, but he refused to sell. In ls49 the
Torkawa Indians sold to the Texas
Government a part of their reservation
for $4,000 in gold. As the tribes were
encamped for nine months about where
Captain Bewley's farm is. it is probable
that they hid a part or all of this money
where they then were. Bewley thinks there
is more gold hidden in this field, so he has
posted his entire farm, and warns all persons
not to come on his place with pick.
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A SOUTHERN Cyclone.

Narrow Escape Of School Children
Cutting a Wide Swath.
A recent cyclone in Chatham County, y.
G.. thirty miles from Raleigh, did much dam.
age. II came from the south, ard first struck
the farm OF J. r. Brewer, destroying his barns,
stable and workshop. Thcpublir schoolhouse,
in which Rev. Jane; ClegS was teaching
twenty children. was turned around ami
moved some feet, but not child was hurt.
The store ri John \. kniGh wa" torn to
pieces. and the gu,d.' were srattere! in all iii
rc;'tioIS.
Tho cyclone then unroofed the dwelling Of
Neal Knight, twisted part Of it around
and demolished his clubhouse. barn. stables
and blacksmith shop. Two of his daughters
were injured. The barn and stables of S. L.
Nomblc were swept away and some vacant
buildings were wrecked near the same
place. The cyclone swept path through the
woods folr I" five iundrcdyards wide, for Il
distance OF five miles. 1t was the greatest
storm on record III that county.
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WashinRton.

CHIEF JUSTICE DAVID K. CARTIER, of the
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia,
is dead in his seventy-fifth year.
THE mission to Austria, which has been va
cant since the Government at Vienna refused
to receive Mr. Kelley, has been filled by. the
appointment by the President of General AL
exander R. Lawton, of Georgia.
An old Sunday law compelling complete
cessation from business is being vigorously
carried out in Washington.
APPOINTMENTS by the President William
J. Allen. of Springfield, ILL.,, to be United
States District Judge for the southern district
of that State; Colonel Wesley Merritt. of the
Fifth Cavalry, to be Brigadier-General.
A NEW York genius has invented vac
uum car" with which he asserts his ability
to navigate the air at high speed and drop
explosives with precision upon the decks Of
war vessels or in fortified places. The Navy
Yard will investigate the invention.
SIGoURNKY BUTLER, Of Massachusetts,,
has been appointed Second Comptroller Of
the Treasury, and E. A. Mosely, also of
Massachusetts, has been chosen Secretary Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Working on De Lesscps' Panama Canal
cannot be very cheerful employment. A
visitor says that few of the laborers live
longer than six weeks after they arrive,
and that in the rainy season ten funeral
trains arc run each day from the canal te
the funeral ground. Notwithstanding
this drawback the company obtain all the
men they want. If that canal is evel
completed, more human lives will have
been sacrificed than in a first class war.
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Nebraska reports remarkable case OF
long delay in bringing murderer to the
gallows. The crime was committed fif-
teen years ago, but the body was not
found for over year, and it was ten
years before the murderer was arrested.
Four years of the laws delay followed,
the accused being three times sentenced
to be hanged. Now the Governor has
signed the death warrant, and the doomed
man has apparently no further chance of
escanc
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Forty years ago an old lady in Baldwin

Forty years ago an old lady in Baldwin,
Fla, about to die, made her children
promise. not to bury her body. She
threatened to haunt them if they did, and
so when she was dead they placed the
body in stout coffin of Florida pine,
placed it on the surface of the ground in
the graveyard, and built strong log pen
around it. The log house is in good con-
dition now, and so is the coffin within
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RECORDER TRoTTER, of Washington,
is said to be lineal descendant OF the
white John Trotter who taught Wash
ineton how to dance the new and fash.
ionable figures at Newport over a hun.
dred years ago. He was never slave,
nor have any of his ancestors been in
bondage since the days of John Han
oool
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Many California women cultivate fruit
farms. They can do much of the work,
such as picking, packing, making raisins
and canning fuit. Crystalized figs and
apricots are the products of woman's la
Dor, as well as jcllics, jams and MARINA
ladies', which are sent all over the world.
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The German government is not apt to
ego off at half cock" in its military cx.
penditurcs, and hence the announcement
that it has paid an inventor $3.50, 600 fol-
steering apparatus for balloons is rea-
sonable guarantee that practical device
has been thought out finally by which the
chief obstacle to aerial navigation has been
overcome
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Deadwood claims to be the greatest
Chinese town in the country. The
Mongols have drowned out opposition in
the washee business, they compete sue
cessfully in the silk, tea and other lines,
run restaurants, raise pigs and chickens
and patronize opium dens and joss houses.
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The pronunciation of geographical
names changes according to fashion, it
often seems. Sometimes the spelling is
varied. The last important change is
new spelling in Japan which places
go in place of 10. Toxic has now be-
come Tokyo; Kioto, Kyoto; Hiogo,
Hyogo, etc. Familiar names look new.
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EVicting in Ireland.

Nine tenants on lord Lansdowne's Lugga-
,urren estate in Ireland were evictcd the
,ther day. The onlookers groaned, but no
resistance was offered.
The same evening placards bearing repre-
entations Of crossbones and coffns were
posted in Listowel, threatening with violence
my man who should take farm from which
he tenant had been evicted.
At Mayo Bridge woman resisted eviction
by barricading her house and throwing boil
ng water on the evictors, who retired de-
,eated.
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A PREMATURE BLAST.
Six Men Killed and Others Injured
in Colorado.

SIX .MC1 NIIN'tI sIHN VVTlCFS III IUFNN
in Colorado.
4 premature blast killed six men and
wounded seven others at railroad camp near
Buena Vista, Col. The men were working in
sixtv-foot cut on the Midland grad"
A twentytoot pole had been pnt down
to blow Off the face Of the cut and
sprung with twenty kegs of black 6 ANT
powder. The foreman was loading the
charge, and when he had fitted in ten kegs
the charge preInaturely exploded. throwing
masses of rock into the cuts where
thirteen men were working, instantly
killing six and wounding the Others.
The wounded included Mr.. Bernard, one of
thy Sullivan, WILLIAM Conway. W. S. Cor
ooran, William O'Nei, William Kopes, and
an unknown mau.
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The letters and papers collected by Mr..
Beecher, when he contemplated writing
his autobiography, will be used as the ba
sis of biography to be written by his
son, William C. Beecher; his son-in-law,
Samuel Scovil, and his wife, Mrs. Henry
Ward Beechcr.
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FROM FAR AND NEAR.
Interesting News Matters From
Various Quarters.
Lieutenant Danenhower, of Arctic
Fame, Commits Suicide.

Lieutenant John VI. Danenhower, of Arctic
fame, was discovered at 10 A. n. the other
morning dead in his quarters at the Naval
Academy, Annapolis, Nd, with bullet hole
inhis right temple. He was found lying Oh
the rug in front of his fireplace
with a tag tied to his button
hole, saying: "Send to my brother at
Washington" Although he had mental
troubles since he returned from the Arctic
regions, what Immediately led to the suicide
is thought to have been the recent ground
ing of the United States ship Corstellatio
OH its way to Norfolk, which he had charge
of, and for which it is supposed
he had a fear of being court-mar-
tailed. Furthermore: he was very intimate
Gently committed suicide on the Carolina,
and whom he saw in death. 1t is supposed
that this death suggested the mode to him.
His wife, formerly Miss Sloan, of New York,
was away with her parents Lieutenant
Danenhower leaves two children. He was
about thirty-ive years old and an intelligent
and polished officer.
The suicide of Lieutenant Danenhower at
Annapolis caused considerable commotion
hover had not been a well man since his
return from the ill-fated Jeanette polar
expedition. His sight was almost
gone and he was permanently
weakened in other ways by the exposure he
had endured on that trip. He was not con-
sidered insane, however, but he was always
and constitutionally Respondent and morbidly
sensitive. He was born in 1S49, and was a
fine officer and Q man of high character. In
1879 he joined the ill-fated Jeannette expe-
dition, being second in command under
Lieutenant De Long, and escaped the fate Of
most of his companions after great sufferings
Lord saIisbury's Offer to Settle the
Fisheries Dispute.
It is officially announced in London that
Lord Salisbury, in dispatch sent to Wash
ington on March "a, says that the British
Government, understanding the action of
the United States in denouncing the fishery
articles of the Treaty of Washington to be in q
great degree tberesult of disappointment at
being called upon to pay el, ,l00, 900 under the
Halifax fisheries award, offers to revert to the
old condition of affairs without pecuniary in
dennity, which offer, it trusts, will commend
itself to the American Government as being
upon that spirit of good will and generosity
which should animate two great and kindred
nations. whose common origin, language, and
institutions constitute so many bonds Of
anity and concord
The Secretary of State at Washington de-
clines to either affirm or deny that Lord Sails
bury has sent such despatch. The subject
matter of the despatch is not exactly news in
Washington diplomatic circles, the same prop
oSition having emanated from Canadian
source some time ago. Well-informed persons
incline to the opinion that the offer has been
indirectly and unofficially made as ''feeler,"
to ascertain in advance of an actual tender
how such proposition would be received by
the American people.
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A LeDcr in Louisville.

Louisville physicians are much interested
over the discovery of genuine case Of lep-
rosy in that city. The patient is John
Hastings, who lives with his parents on
Wilson street. He contracted the terrible
disease in Honolulu about three years ago,
and his entire body is covered with the
sruptions peculiar to lepers. Hastings is
thirty years of age. He left home about five
years ago and went to Hawaii, where he con-
tracted the terrible disease The steamer
City Of Peking brought him back to San
Francisco, and he was sent home to his rela-
lives. He succeeded in keeping from his parents
al knowledge of the disease, and it was not
until few days ago that they knew Of their
sons ailnlent. During the last two years he
had been treating himself. Two cf the best
physicians in Louisville now have his case in
nand.
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CAPTAIN NATHANIEL FISH, Of the Cherokee,
Nation, thought centenarian, is as active a..
a man Of sixty. he walks into Tahlequah.
from his farm, seven miles away, once or.
twice each weak, and back, and IS in sound
health every way. He cut two new teeth re-
GENTLY
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THE county Of Clermont, Ohio. has a citi-
zen who has worn the snmo pair of boots con-
tinuouslv. day and night, without once re-
moving them, for eighteen months. He ex-
poets to wear them six months longer: and
thereby win bet Of Sl(p.
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CHINA has ceded to Germany the Chusan
Islands on its eastern coast, a very important
acquisition for that Power. Chusan was
captured by the British in 1910 and restored
70 China in 1916
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A REPORT from Billings, Montana, states
that even the game in that vicinity is 50 weak
from hnnger that antelope and elk can be
killed with clubs A party Of hunters recently
killed six moose in that way. -.
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Six Nihilists Sentenced to Death.

Six of the men arrested in st. Petersburg
;or completely IN the plot to assassinate the
czar, which was to have been carried out on
March 13, have been sentenced to death.
The other conspiratorS have been sentenced
10 Imprisonment for life.
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PROFESSIONAL jumper, of St. Catharme's,
Canada, as his share Of the celebration Of the
Queens Jubilee, on May 26, will encircls
himself with bladders and rubber suit.
swim down the Niagara current to q point
clean leap over the Horseshoe Falls. He will
avoid the American Falls on account Of the
vooho